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How You Can Help

There are so many different ways to get involved. Starting or supporting a reading club, helping us to supply reading materials, sharing information about Nal’ibali and why reading and telling stories is a great thing to do with children.

 

Support/Donation

As a national initiative, we urge and welcome corporate sponsors and partners to help us equip literacy organisations and reading clubs across the country. There are so many different ways to get involved − from starting or supporting a reading club, helping us to supply reading materials, or simply sharing information about Nal’ibali and why reading and telling stories is a great thing to do with children.

Corporate support

As a national initiative, we urge and welcome corporate sponsors and partners to help us equip literacy organisations and reading clubs across the country. Working together we are starting to nurture and sustain the kinds of conditions that help all children grow the confidence, creativity and skills they need to become knowledgeable, literate citizens.

Publishers & Authors

Consider partnering with us to develop low-cost editions of your most popular children’s books in different South African languages. Do you have overstocked children’s titles that you could donate? We welcome a range of children’s books to include in book packs distributed to reading clubs and literacy organisations in the Nal’ibali network.

Individual Support

If you don’t have time to start your own reading club, don’t worry! There are many other ways you can support Nal’ibali and help build a generation of children who love to read.

Reading Clubs

This is for all of us! Moms, dads, grandparents, teachers, librarians, volunteers, caregivers, students and all reading enthusiasts: open up new worlds for children by inviting them into the magic world of stories and books! Or, why not get your colleagues involved? Support an existing Nal’ibali Reading Club near you or help start a company-sponsored one at a nearby school, church or library.

Gifts-in-kind

While cuddles, smiles, stories and songs help turn informal spaces into welcoming ones where children love to be, equipment like cushions, book boxes, mats and stationery, as well as food, money for outings, and transport subsidies are needed.

Become a FunDza Leader

FUNda Leaders are adults who care about and respect children, and want to help children learn and become literate. If YOU are willing to be reading role model in your community, sign up and get Nal’ibali support here..

Become an Employee Volunteer

Employee volunteer programmes give staff the chance to get involved in something big and meaningful. It also allows them to take pride in where they work, and to connect with colleagues on a deeper level. Using interactive skills we train your employees, online or in person, on the importance of building literacy habits, how to become literacy volunteers, and how to start and run a reading club, building a community of practice.

Invest in a Nation of Readers

Words, books and stories have strong effects on children, especially those born into poverty. To reach 10% of SA children under five, Nal’ibali needs to raise an additional R75 million per year over the next three years. 

R 200,000

Can distribute 240,000 stories or train 800 parents to read aloud with their children.

R 2 Million

Can reach 7.7 million people with stories and reading tips via radio.

R 20 Million

Can provide 30 stories a year to 25% of foundation phase learners in SA.

R 200 Million

Can launch a national book-gifting programme for all SA children under 5.

Start a Reading Club

Are you interested in starting a reading club or become a literacy volunteer? Or maybe you’d just like to get in touch. 

Contact Us

We’d love to hear from you! Whatever your query is, there are various ways to contact us. 

Invest in a nation of readers!